Jeffrey, I think users that bought this hardware deserve more information than just 'because of technical reasons'. You just stopped supporting it abruptly. Please reason this problem. ... View more

I see no reason why it's limited to a single document selection in a first place. I force myself to love the home screen, but it has so many flaws... Explorer/Finder are still better, even if Ps can show recent thumbnails. So having more functionality adapted from these can help. ... View more

There's an advantage of not being involved in all that's going in within PS, some thing get you surprised in a good way. Good news! We should have this as the Unified Unified thing across all apps. Please let us know when it will happen. ... View more

@alexander_lane_inic6nwfjd16v  Yeah, Shift+grave could suite me... But I'm still struggling with Ctrl+Shift+F instead of Ctrl+F for 'Fade'. Argh. Thanks though. ... View more

Any news on that? This is what holding me from moving from 2017 version (and also lack of supporting 32bit plugins — I have some I can’t work without). ... View more

Roman, I only recently found it and I have to ask after testing it: do you plan hotkeys for inner plugins? when do you want to add selections support? ... View more

Dick, it's an effect. It changes the LOOK of the art, without actually changing it. So it's OK that bbox contains the original line. It is vertical. It looks rotated though. Because of effect. You might want to read the manual on effects in Illustrator. ... View more

By the way, Shape Builder suffers from the same lack of precision, that a script I recommended, Try to create this art with integer coordinates, cut excesses with Shape builder and see what width and height your previously perfect circle would be 😞 And Shape Builder will produce closed pieces out of this pie, while Dynamic Sketch and the script both leave lines opened. ... View more

But if you are after precision, then the script won't suite you. Unfortunately, a bug in one of inner Illustrator's operations this script utilizes, moves each point just a thousandth of a millimeter. Not much but it can be cricial 😞 ... View more

Well, scipts can automate a lot of things for you, I wouldn't reject them just becasue you are unfamiliar with them. What about plugns? DynmaicSketch from AstuteGraphics can do like this: Still, try the script. It does exactly what you want it to do: ... View more

What you probably need, is a SplitPath script by Sergey Osokin You can find it here: https://github.com/creold/illustrator-scripts ... View more

You know how this works sometimes ... View more

I'm a dumbass, I'm trying to divide a function. Well, then, how to READ current angle of gradient fill with JS? I know well how to set it, but I need to know it first to change it. ... View more

I emailed Joel Baer at Adobe several cases of new S&M being failure compared with old Refine edge, with examples, as he asked to do so somewhere above. He never replied me. I can repost all of them here, but I think everybody here and elsewhere have tons of these examples. _Chilexy's example is even more detailed as mine, Conrad's C example is ridiculously weak. I repeat once more: S&M is failure, soft launch is crucial, feedback is must-be. Nobody cancelled horses when automobiles were invented. Bring back RE and stop spoiling working features. ... View more

Oh, thank you. It's so easy to earn a gratitude! First spoil something, then fix it Could you tell me, is there some sort of public bugtracker, so everyone could know about bugs being working on? I don't claim feature list, it's commercial secret, aha, but bugs! Ctrl+A not working with one character in string? Ctrl+Enter broken for Color palette? and for Live shapes too? I have submitted them, but no answer came, no reply, no traces about my efforts to fix new issues. A little bit more publicity? Every time I HAD to update (I don't own my workplace), I FEAR. Bugs keep coming. ... View more

Any news about new version? ... View more

I wish I just have 'checked' these, but I often have to heavily change them in a way Acrobat can't offer. 'Never try to edit rasters outside PS, never try to work with huge texts outside ID, never do vectors outside AI', yes, everybody tries to, but we all work in ways we feel comfortable with. Everything gets more cross-inherited, everything is live-linked, there are Smarts within Smarts. Where Adobe fails, third-parties come to help. That's why there's Rasterino with live-crop tool, and live-editing embedded images in PS (long before Adobe finally understood there should be a quick way to un-embed images). Isaacs and Rosenthol can stick to their pure claims, but they seem to live and write about people using Adobe tools in perfect detached abstract world (where nobody wants handles to snap to grid, have actions to support scripts, assign hotkeys for scripts, disable live shapes and corners and so forth). In real world separations are often being done ignoring all profiles included because people who embed them don't even understand what they do. Hinting often doesn't matter for huge banners with crazy resolution. Text often got outlined because embedding live fonts often fails because of suspicious fonts used. 'Often' is much worth for streamline then 'never'. People choose what doesn't fail. It's almost always the easiest way — Outline+Expand+Flatten. When Adobe learns to listen their customers, they surely can teach us. When I see constructs fail to open, when there's a mixed color spaces, when text goes auto-outlined, I take a note — it's done NOT in AI (which is rare), take cautious. As long as AI allows me to open PDF and warns me about problems — I will do it. ... View more

Yes, it is definitely I intend to do — ignore AI-part with missing link and read PDF-part with image embedded. I never saved these files I'm talking about, they are saved by client. They are to be flattened, because they go to printing. But I often had to check geometry and inner dimensions and other stuff before sending it further, so I have to see if with all images presented. Thanks for the unintentional insight again! ... View more

Well, I've figured out a way. Open PDF in Acrobat (not Reader) and resave it as optimized with no actual changes in settings at all (all checkboxes off, retain existing compatibility). When you try to open this resaved file in Illustrator, it asks about keeping or retaining 'changes' made outside AI. Keep it. Then it reads PDF-part rather then AI-part. ... View more

Yeah, I've read it long ago, it was a nice insight and I often give a link to it, when asked about different formats. Thanks for this again. I might have misinformed you, but I'm talking about opening PDF-files now. I'm trying to open provided PDF-file in newest AI. Acrobat shows image, Photoshop shows image, Illustrator says it's missing. It's obviously because client forgot to embed image when saving, so image now exists only in PDF part. If there is a way to avoid routines I wrote above and have images from PDF part be embedded in AI part? ... View more

Thanks for pointing it out, Monika. This is weird. How could you manage to figure it out? Where did Adobe write about it? Do you know any way to force AICC to open PDF-part rather then AI? Before AICC: open and edit, resave at will. After AICC: open, see missing files, open file in Photoshop, save image (and recode it if it was JPEG, which is very bad), relink it. After AICC Place method: open, write down size, create new document with sizes written down, place, resize (it doesn't get placed in correct size), embed. You know, this is ridiculous. Adobe again spoils working stuff. ... View more

I have one fat script that includes everything I need. ... View more

If it will work under windows, it would be very-very-very usefull. I have my own dumbish workaround, using AutoHotKey and intence sorting-renaming scripts. Each script I use is renamed like this: 0 Do Cool Stuff.jsx 2 Apply Magic.jsx ... 9 Almost Colossal A Turn to Alphabet and so on. All scripts divede by groups and folders' names have hotletters in them like this: Cl&ean Co&ntrol Colors This allows me to summon scripts using only keyboard: Alt+F, R, E (for going into 'Cl&ean'), 2 (the number of sript needed) Then I have permanent AHK-script running, which folds these long chords into small Win+Z, for example. The piece of the script looks like this: #NoEnv #Persistent #SingleInstance force SetKeyDelay, -1 #IfWinActive, ahk_class illustrator #vk5A:: ;z zoom to selection SendMessage, 0x50, , 0x4090409, , ahk_class illustrator send {alt down}{f}{alt up} send {r}{v}{3} return ... #IfWinActive It flickers for a second, but it works. ... View more

Well, nobody noticed the difference. This one has undercore after filename — exportedfile_Artboard 1.tif This one, exported from unrenamed artboard, has not, it has hypen instead — exportedfile-01.tif Even if get rid of 'Artboard' it will still differ: exportedfile-01.tif vs exportedfile_01.tif I have a whole pipeline for editing these files after exporting, so this change is very irritating, becuase I have both renamed and unrenamed ways to work with, manually choose the set of scripts, put changes in both sets and so on. So the problem turn out to be not about renaming artboards, but resetting numbering order. And I'm very suspicious it's not possible. Cruel world! ... View more

Well, the script, as I said before, is working, but only by half. It really does rename artboards, so their names looks like 'Artboard 1' and counting forth. By when things go to the export, resulting tif-files have names like these: exportedfile_Artboard 1.tif while the result needed is more like: exportedfile-01.tif The problem is when I delete some of the artboards, don't use script, and then export stuff, I get order with gaps: exportedfile-02.tif exportedfile-04.tif exportedfile-12.tif and so on. The script was intended to restore that order, resetting it rather than actual renaming. It seems that artboard 'name' could be undefined, and the order is hidden somewhere deeper. ... View more

Damn! My approach I've managed to try before your post was too straight and less useful. You've done even more than I could have asked. The counters are very helpful. Testing is done, it really selects right points! While tracking it, I thought that buttons should select but not close window (as Carlos did in his AlignText script, for exampe), so I'll try to rebuild is as palette. Thanks a lot! It came out to be powerful tool. ... View more

Wait a second. What if script won't try to convert problematic points to smooth on it's own, but rather just select them? There is a button in PathScribe panel, that already can finish it with one click! ... View more